Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Ballynavortha, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynavortha
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.74469, -6.63983
- SMR number
- WI042-035----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle SE-facing slope. According to Price (1958, 375), ‘On a farm here there is an arrangement of low grass banks forming a maze, which is locally called ‘the walls of Troy’. The maze appears to have been a sod or turf maze (Manning 2004, 166-8). A sketch by Healy c. 1957 (ibid.) shows it as a rectangular labyrinth (dims. 24.4m x 26.4m). The monument was levelled in 1990 and is not visible above ground.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 05 October 2012
References
Manning, C. 2004 A former sod or turf maze at Ballynavortha, Co. Wicklow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 135, 166-68.
Price, L. 1958 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. VI - The barony of Shillelagh. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (339-81).
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.